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The Beaver Bulletin / Le Bulletin du castor


DP Canada: Recycling Dead Trees into Living Text
DP Canada: Nous recyclons les arbres morts pour en faire des textes vivants


Volume 4, Issue #93--July 1, 2011
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)


Happy Canada Day!!!


Contents

Simon Says...

CPing is a skill upon which the DP community is totally dependent. While some PMs do their own CPing, others work in cooperation with CP "partners". I want to extend credit to Al Haines and Greg Weeks who have helped me to launch so many projects, and to Mark Akrigg of PGC, who is working with several PMs.

Most often these CPers do the harvesting of scansets from TIA or Google, or some other archive, and at least part of the file prep work. Or they do the actual scanning from an original book. They may do the OCR as well.

DPC could certainly use more CPers and PMs--if you have a yen to try it, or have at least been curious if you could help out in the area, please let me encourage you. There is plenty of help available, and several members have indicated that they are willing to mentor a new CPer or PM. Just let me know, and I'll steer you to someone who will assist you through your first (few) projects.

There are certainly several documents that detail different approaches to CPing available in the wikis of both DPC and DP-INT (for example http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Content_Providing_FAQ but remember some differences exist for DPC), but here's a quick checklist. I am not making any attempt to indicate which tasks are CP tasks versus PM tasks--they all need to be done in the process of starting a project:

1. Identify a suitable project--almost any book is OK, but consider especially types or genres that are under-represented in our workflow

2. Gather information to support a copyright clearance request, and send it to me by email at starlink@rogers.com. I need at least full title, subtitle if any, complete author's name, their year of birth and death (DOB, DOD), scans of the title page and verso page (that's the one that is on the back of the title page), year of publication (and of copyright if that's different), ideally the publishing firm's name and city, and evidence of the author's DOD (website address of a library, archive, university or encyclopaedia that shows the DOD). NB, if you don't have the DOD evidence, send me the rest and we'll dig for the DOD--the Infomaniacs team is very helpful on this.

Here is an example of the perfect request for clearance--I can issue a clearance within minutes when this type of careful documentation is done:
Title: Countess Kate
Author: Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901) http://lccn.loc.gov/60013062
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1948
Printer: R MacLehose and Company Limited; The University Press Glasgow
Illustrator: Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) http://lccn.loc.gov/60013062
Other info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Yonge
Source of Book: Mark Akrigg

3. Note that, if there are any other significant contributors (illustrator, editor, writer of preface or postscript, whatever) we need their DOD, too.

4. If the project is being done from harvested scans from an archive source:

a. make sure that the source is included on DPC's list of approved sources (see http://www.pgdpcanada.net/c/tools/project_manager/show_image_sources.php)
b. locate the source directory, download the scanset, and save it to the hard disk of your computer.
c. create a project directory--something like nameofproject--and subdirectories for scans, pngs, text and illos (if there are any actual illos included in the book)
d. unzip the download into the scans subdirectory
e. (if necessary) rename the scan files (for example, I find that TIA uses horribly long filenames that are useful only to them). Most scan files can be named something like 001.jpg
f. check the scans using your image-manipulation software (I recommend IrfanView, which can be downloaded free from http://www.tucows.com/preview/194967)
g. some scans will need to be:
1. rotated (older TIA scansets were often scanned "sideways", so needed to be rotated alternately left and right)
2. cropped--some scansets were created with huge margins that we don't need
3. re-sized--some scans are huge--but be wary of reducing size too much before the OCR work is completed
4. colour-reduced--for text pages, we don't usually need more that 16 colours--but watch out you don't produce scans that are unreadable
h. some CPers delete blank pages, or those strange "colour-check" pages, from the start and end of scansets at this stage
i. save the resulting scan files in your scans subdir

5. Of course, if you're scanning from a book, you can avoid much of this work by selecting settings for your scanner software. When scanning, try to avoid the kinds of problems I often see in TIA or Google scansets (missing pages, blurred, skewed or keystoned pages, thumbs obscuring part of the page--I'm not kidding, pages shifted to omit part of the text).

6. Next, do the OCR work (see the recommendations about choosing OCR software at http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/Ocr_software). Make sure to save the text files, in your text subdir, with names that match the names of the scan files (so they will "pair up" when they're loaded to the project database), and as UTF-8 text format.

7. At this point, you should do at least part of the file prep work on the text files:

a. run them through guiprep to ensure that line-end hyphens and em-dashes are dealt with properly [Ed: Alternatively, if you do not have guiprep or a similar application on your computer, some OCR applications also have search and replace functions.]
b. optionally, you can remove page headers, footers and page numbers
c. and finally, run them through DeBOM to remove any BOMs (byte order markers)

8. Then you can finalize the scan files into smaller .png or .jpg files by cropping, re-sizing and lowering colour levels to reduce the file sizes to less than 50K for plain text pages and less than 100K for illo pages. Save these reduced .png or .jpg files in your png subdir. Finally, do the last pass of prep work for the illo files (if any) to make them ready for the PPer, and store these in your illo subdir. If you're just learning about "image wrangling", you could leave this step for the PPer.

9. The PM will create the Project page, and the Project Instructions (if any), and load the scan, text and illo files to the dpscans server, then transfer them to the project directory. The PM or one of the Project Facilitators will check that no pages are missing, and that quality is acceptable for proofing. Any missing pages should be flagged as soon as possible, and certainly before the project moves out of P1, so that corrections can be made easily.

Thanks for CPing!!

Cheers

Simon

Annual Canada Article

by Dr. Mark Akrigg of PG Canada

PG CANADA'S FOURTH ANNIVERSARY

I was delighted to be invited by Quill to offer a few words on this year's anniversary of PG Canada's launch four years ago on Canada Day.

Each book that we post is another achievement; and the quality of the individual ebooks matters far more than the mere quantity of ebooks produced. That said, a year ago we had a catalogue of just under 600 titles; today I had the pleasure of posting ebook #811.

All of this is because of the fine work done by many volunteers, in particular the volunteers at DPC. Thank you!

EBOOKS IN FRENCH

Our French-language collection is of the highest possible quality. Here quantity does matter: it would be excellent if we could increase the proportion of books that we offer in French. So please do not hesitate to proof some French. If your knowledge of French is not what you would like it to be, focus on the earlier rounds, where any errors you might make will be caught later. I personally have found proofreading to be a marvellous way of improving my knowledge of languages.

THE PRICE OF LIBERTY (AND A HEALTHY PUBLIC DOMAIN) IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE

This has been an eventful year in Canadian politics. In the area of copyright law, there is little difference between our political parties, and I say this by way of compliment: there is a political consensus in Canada that the basic Life+50 term is more than adequate, and should not be increased.

The chief threat to the Canadian public domain comes from overseas. It was a "free trade" agreement with the United States that forced Australia's unfortunate extension of copyright terms. This is a lesson that we must not forget. The European Union in the early phases of its current trade talks with Canada put forward the notion that Canada should follow Europe's dreadful example by extending copyright durations. There is no particular sign that our government had any sympathy for this suggestion: in particular, the several free trade agreements signed by the current government excluded "intellectual property" concerns altogether.

However, if a free trade agreement is reached with the European Union, let's make sure that it doesn't include any nonsense about extending copyright durations. So if you are talking with your MP over the summer, be sure to bring this up. And it never does any harm to write, email, or phone your MP!

In fact, why not take a moment and send a friendly note right now? And a followup in August!

ENJOY THE SUMMER!

Thank you again to everyone, and congratulations on what has been achieved. Have a wonderful summer of relaxing, reading, and (in particular) proofreading!

Mark


Special Requests

Any available or potential PPers?

Currently there are about 100 projects in the queue. Simple Simon is very good about picking up projects to PPV in order to keep that queue as short as possible ... Can't post anything if there is nothing to PPV....

Lots of choices depending on what you like:

  • easy, average, hard;
  • lots of history, lots of biography, fiction, humour (or is that "humor" :wink:), folklore, periodicals, science, juvenile, various reference material and other genres;
  • most are in English--including all the BEGIN, but there are also three in Portuguese, three in French, one in German, one English with French and one in Spanish (at the time of writing);
  • the regular projects range in size from about 25 pages to over 800 while the BEGIN projects range from 5 to 15 pages--very easy if you want to try your hand at PPing;
  • a number of them have illustrations.

There are also a number that have been sitting in the PP pool for more than a year--including German and Portuguese projects. Any takers?

We're always looking for new PPers. If you are interested, drop by any of the PPing-related forums or send a PM to Simple Simon:

For those people who are interested in learning how to PP, generally the BEGIN projects are an ideal way to do it. The projects are very short and have few if any illustrations or other formatting requirements. Since the projects are short and simple, re-doing them is very easy. There are also other EASY projects which, though longer, would be good for beginners.

However, all the current BEGIN projects belong to a single ebook Urbanities and it really should be done by the same PPer for consistency as the PM advises that the projects must be compiled into a single project as they are not "stand alone" items as many other very short BEGIN projects are.

If you are interested, please send a PM to Simon and he'll advise you how to get started,

Please remember, there are several experienced PPers who will give some direction if asked. Lostpaces has offered to mentor new PPers so you are not alone. Check out her forum discussion thread: Would like to PP? Check here. Or send her a PM.


New Forum Topics for June

Do you ever check the DPC Forums Index to see if there are any new topics that might be of interest to you?... I'm not talking about project discussion forums, but forums related to CPing, PMing, PPing, general topics, even new User Team forums, etc., etc., etc. Have a peek at some of them; maybe you'll find an answer to that question that you haven't gotten around to asking or weren't sure if you could or should ask it.... Or maybe you'll find a post that will give you a giggle or two.

In June, we had the following new, interesting, forum threads created:


New eBooks Posted to PG Canada

Here's this issue's installment for DPC books posted to PG Canada in the last two weeks. The books are listed alphabetically by author, then title; short story titles (if any) are underlined. This listing covers June 18 to July 1:

  • Spook Stories (1928) by Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940)* The Dust of Conflict (1907) by Harold Bindloss (1866-1945)
  • The Men of the Last Frontier (1931) by Grey Owl [Archibald Stansfeld Belaney] (1888-1938)
  • Der treue Johannes [Trusty John / Jean-le-Fidèle] a short story from the book Kinder und Hausmärchen gesammelt durch die Brüder Grimm (1857) by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859)
  • The Coming of the Mormons (1953) by James Arthur Kjelgaard (1910-1959)


Editorial

Posted Book Count--We did it!!! 600 books!

It took about 4½ months to go from #500 to #600. If our PPers were to continue to work hard, we might see #700 by the end of the year. ... Is it possible? Maybe....

Yes, yes, we could look to #1,000; but we're not likely to see that before 2013 ... though, that is just over 1½ years from now. ... Boy, time does fly when one is having fun, doesn't it. <<grin>>

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Project Gutenberg Canada--Today, July 1, marks the 4th anniversary of PG Canada. Congrats, Mark. It's really great that we can find "free" ebooks that are in Canada's Public Domain. I know that there are other DPCers who feel the same way. Thank you for creating and managing PG Canada.

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New P3 and F2--Congrats to the new P3 and F2 people. We can certainly use your skills. You are most welcome and most appreciated by all; especially our PPers. I think that the P3 and F2 rounds are the most difficult since you must find the "errors" that others have missed.

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Faulty links to Guidelines--Some go to the correct pages; some, unfortunately, do not. You will notice a short jump via the old php Proofreading Guidelines page. Simon HAS highlighted (i.e., bolded) the connecting link to the Formatting Guidelines on the Proofreading Guidelines wikipage so that you can get to the correct page.

If you wish, you can always set up bookmarks in your browser's "Favorites" for the correct Guidelines and the main FAQ page:

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Attention Drama enthusiasts--The "Drama Training" people are taking the summer off; but they will be back in the fall. However, Tizz continues to CP and PM regular drama titles so all is not lost if you need a "drama" fix.

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Display site--As an FYI, Simon has done a number of articles discussing his ideas for the Display Site. They can be found at:

Simon welcomes your input, too. So if you've any ideas, either send him an email or post to the discussion forum that is noted below.

Do please provide Simon with any suggestions or ideas that you have. He's provided an email link (starlink @ rogers.com) so that you can send him comments that you don't want to write in a forum post. Any and ALL ideas, comments, suggestions, questions, etc. are welcome. I'm sure that there are lots more ideas out there.

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PLEASE NOTE--Update--The "new" FAQs and non-English Guidelines that you can access through the FAQ Central page either have been or are being revised to be truly DPC versions.

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ÜberProjects--see the regular updates below. There's a good possibility that several more of our Chronicles will be posted soon.


Revisions to Guidelines, FAQs, etc.

Guideline Differences--Once we get our Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines updated, we intend to produce a wikipage with the differences between DP-Int and DPC Guidelines. One thing to remember though: one of the major differences between the Guidelines of the two sites is that DPC has organized our differently from DP-Int; so be sure to use the links at the top of the Guidelines pages.


ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada

To see the current status of the volumes, check out the ÜberProject wiki page for The Chronicles of Canada here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Chronicles_of_Canada

  • De2164 and IonaV are prepping the rest of the volumes. Sufficient PMs have volunteered to handle all remaining volumes--we just need PPers, but the volumes can be picked up from the PP pool when they have completed the rounds unless there is a volume that a PPer really wants to do--in that case let the PM know sooner rather than later.
  • We have borrowed "mint condition" copies of the full set and so will be able to get good scans of all the maps and illustrations as well as picking up missing pages (if any). Thank you to hugger1935 for the use of the books.
  • P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; available for or in post-processing or PPVing: 0; waiting for posting: 14; posted to Project Gutenberg: 11 There are several in New Project being prepared for the P1: Waiting queue with one or two yet to be prepped.
  • PP standards have been set and the books do not have anything extremely difficult at all. Check the Chronicles wiki page for the PP standards. Some of the standards for PPing have been updated.
  • Volumes 13, 17 and 24 are being done at DP-Int since the authors of these volumes are out of DPC's copyright purview. They will be posted to PG-Int in due time.. Volumes, 13, 17 and 24 are now in PP. Vol. 17 is now eligible for posting to PGC as the author died in 1960; the other author (Vol. 13 & 24) died in 1970 so we still have a few years to wait for those books to be eligible for PGC.
  • Eleven volumes have been posted to PGC and/or PG-International:
    • Volume 1: The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada,
    • Volume 2: The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier,
    • Volume 3: The Founder of New France, A Chronicle of Champlain,
    • Volume 5: The Seigneurs of old Canada: A Chronicle of New World Feudalism,
    • Volume 8: The Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760,
    • Volume 11: The Winning of Canada, A Chronicle of Wolfe,
    • Volume 12: The Father of British Canada, A Chronicle of Carleton,
    • Volume 18: The 'Adventures of England on Hudson Bay', A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North,
    • Volume 20: Adventurers of the Far North, A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas,
    • Volume 27: The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841, and
    • Volume 29: The Day of Sir John MacDonald, A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Dominion.


ÜberProject #2: Jesuit Relations

Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France; 1610-1791

Vol. 65: Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley, 1696-1702, is in post processing; though Simple Simon says that it has been a long, slow process. Smooth Reading is done ... now Simon gets to finalize the text version (readable) and he'll also be working on the HTML readable and both scholarly versions as well. The scholarly versions will include ALL the strange characters and abbreviations from the original Jesuit diaries.

This volume has taken longer to PP as he is setting up precedents and procedures for the PPing of this project. If you've done any work on any of the volumes either here or at DP-Int, you'll know that they are not simple. Simon advises that it should be complete in another week or so.

Vol. 66: Illinois, Louisiana, Iroquois, Lower Canada, 1702-1712, is now in post processing.

Vol. 67: Lower Canada, Abenakis, Louisiana; 1716- 1727 is in post processing.

Vol. 68: Lower Canada, Crees, Louisiana; 1720-1736 is now in post processing.

Vol. 69: All Missions; 1710-1756 is in F2: Available. More of the same strange characters with Latin as well as old French spellings and English.

A set of standards has been determined and added to the Project Comments. An ÜberProject wiki page for Jesuit Relations has been created. It includes the basic instructions for proofing and formatting.


ÜberProject #3: Governor General's Award Books

Warmheart has created an ÜberProject page for this uberproject. The page looks very good and has lots of links. You can see the details of what she has completed to date here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Governor_General%27s_Literary_Awards Check it out, you might find something interesting there....

There are only a couple of books that are available since many of the authors are still alive--ah, well, we'll get them eventually.

We have another GG Awards book: Little Man (1942) by George Herbert Sallans (1895-1960). It's currently in P2: Available.


ÜberProject #4: Periodicals

Graham's Magazine

This was the first of our Periodicals ÜberProjects.

Second year--prep: 6; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 6; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0

First year--ALL issues are posted to Project Gutenberg

Our Young Folks

An illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls

Issued monthly; Publication Dates: January 1865 thru October 1873 when it merged with St. Nicholas.

Volume 3: prep: 1; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 0; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0

Volume 2: prep: 1; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 11; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0

Volume 1: post-processing: 10; posted to Project Gutenberg: 2

Warmheart's wikipage for the Periodical can be found through this link: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Our_Young_Folks .

Scientific American

These are very early issues from 1846. The first issue has now been posted. Simon has more being prepped for proofing.

We've started a wiki page for it: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Periodicals/Scientific_American.

The Maple Leaf

This Canadian juvenile periodical was published between 1852 and 1854 for a total of 30 issues. IonaV is PMing and handling the prep. Susan downloaded the scans and will possibly do the PPing.

Volume 1 (6 issues): prep: 5; P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 1; posted to Project Gutenberg: 0.

A wikipage has been created: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Maple_Leaf

"Old Periodicals" Criteria

Remember, these aren't the only periodicals that we can do--there are lots of others out there and some that are quite unique. Is there one that you'd like to do? Suggestions for favourite OLD periodicals are always welcome, but they must meet 3 criteria:

  1. published earlier than 1865 to avoid the need for copyright checking
  2. good quality scans of a reasonable number of issues (preferably in whole volumes of 6-months or a year)
  3. interesting content, out of the ordinary, Canadiana, ...


ÜberProject #5: Works by Charles Dickens

Simple Simon and IonaV are Dickens fans. We know that there are many more out there. Although there are some of Dickens' works on the other PG sites, some of it is text only. We've got early editions of those books with illustrations as well as stories that have not yet been posted. As well, there are letters and essays and ...

More details and an ÜberProject wiki page to come.


ÜberProject #6: John Graves Simcoe

John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and military leader of Canada, and one of the true Canadian "Fathers of Confederation". This is NOT dull history either.

Projects about or by Simcoe in P1: Waiting: 0; proofing/formatting rounds: 0; post-processing: 3. Three have been posted to PGC.


ÜberProject #7: Gilbert (George) Murray

Gilbert Murray lived from 1866-1957. He was quite a prolific writer with some 90 odd titles to his name with 32 of them being translations of Greek dramas.

Status of these projects--post processing: 7; proofing/formatting rounds: 3; P1: Waiting: 0; in prep: 1 Posted to Project Gutenberg: 14.

Miscia has created a wikipage which will be a work in progress ... naturally: Gilbert Murray. Miscia has recently revised the wikipage to include other works by Mr. Murray that are either currently going through or have completed the rounds at DPC. </span>


ÜberProject #8: Art Latcham Magic Collection

This new ÜberProject has been launched--see the update for more details.

Status of these projects--post processing: 1; in prep: ? Actually this is in the PPV queue. Thanks to rcool for PPing it.

This project is on the back burner until Simon can acquire a high speed scanner as he is the only one who can prep the books.

For more information see the comments in the Simon Says... article in the March 26, 2010 issue.


We Grow Every Day

We are now up to 1,145 members. Welcome to all new members; I hope you find some projects that you will enjoy doing. Many of our members are also members of DP-Int/US and/or DP Europe--we welcome them and thank them for all their continued support and interest in DPC. (Numbers are accurate up to "press" time.)

New
July 2011 0
June 2011 29
May 2011 11
April 2011 14
2011 Q1 77
2010 total 219
2009 total 321
2008 total 235
2007 total 239
Total to date 1145


Milestones

We are going to use this space to "celebrate" notable milestones achieved by a member, team, group or project. For example, we'll report when a member completes 5,000 pages in any one round; then we'll let you know when they've done 10,000 pages and so on.

The "team" numbers are the cumulative totals for each round for each member while they are members of a particular team. So that's why, the team pages go up whenever a team member's totals increase. Another reason to join a team or two....

Completed 75,000 pages in a round:

  • no one at present...


Completed 70,000 pages in a round:

  • Foofers' Corner in F2


Completed 65,000 pages in a round:

  • no one at present...


Completed 60,000 pages in a round:

  • no one at present...


Completed 55,000 pages in a round:

  • Team USA in P3


Completed 50,000 pages in a round:

  • no one at present...


Completed 45,000 pages in a round:

  • uwe-joachim in F2
  • P3 Pros in P3


Completed 40,000 pages in a round:

  • Drama Team in P2
  • Ex-Pats in F2
  • Foofers' Corner in F1
  • Team Canada in P1


Completed 35,000 pages in a round:

  • Miscia in F2
  • rolands in P3
  • Drama Team in F2
  • P2 Expediters in P3
  • Team Canada in F2


Completed 30,000 pages in a round:

  • hugger1935 in P2
  • Drama Team in P3 NEW!!!
  • Team Canada in P3


Completed 25,000 pages in a round:

  • RCEberwein in F1
  • Drama Team in F1NEW!!!
  • Team Canada in P2


Completed 20,000 pages in a round:

  • cmspence in F2
  • hugger1935 in F1
  • Scribe in F2
  • stygiania in P3
  • LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2


Completed 15,000 pages in a round:

  • Miscia in P3
  • snowseraph in P2
  • Drama Team in P1
  • Weather Reports in F2
  • Team USA in P2 and F1


Completed 10,000 pages in a round:

  • Antigony in F1
  • Bibi in P3
  • De2164 in F1
  • GIMadore in P1
  • hugger1935 in P1
  • Marmaduke in P3
  • RCEberwein in P1
  • rcool in P1 and P2
  • Foofers' Corner in P1, P2 and P3
  • P2 Expediters in P2
  • Team Canada in F1
  • Team français in P3
  • Team German in F1 and F2
  • Team USA in P1 and F2


Completed 5,000 pages in a round:

  • awg47 in P3
  • Adair in F1 and F2
  • Daniel G in P1
  • gmiller in P2
  • goofball in P1
  • hazeleyeflgal in F2
  • hugger1935 in P3 and F2
  • jadrien in P3
  • jimmy in F1
  • literagnu in F1
  • Long Green in F1
  • mcbax in P3
  • Miscia in P2 and F1
  • mongrelboy in P2
  • Pippin in F1
  • RCEberwein in P2 and P3
  • rcool in P3
  • snowseraph in P1
  • stygiania in F2
  • supo88 in P1 and P2
  • terryt937 in P1, P2 and F1
  • walmac in P1
  • Warmheart in P2 and F1
  • yajeulb in F1
  • DPing with Cats in P1, P2 and F1
  • Illustrators in F1
  • Infomaniacs in P2 and P3
  • LOTE Flotes my Bote in F1
  • P2 Expediters in F2
  • P3 Pros in P2 and F2
  • Table Tamers in F1
  • Team British Columbia in P1, P2, P3 and F2
  • Team français in P1 and P2
  • Team German in P2 and P3
  • Smoothies in P2
  • Team UK in P1, P2, P3 and F1

And how many pages have been done in each of the rounds? Naturally, F2 will be at the bottom since they are the last round that gets the projects before PPing and P1 will be on top since they get to start all the projects. <grin> Another consideration is that P3 or F2 stats may be slightly smaller if the PM/PPer has skipped his/her/their project through either one or both of those rounds. So let's see where each round was at the end of June:

  • P1 completed over 234,000 pages
  • P2 completed over 221,000 pages
  • P3 completed over 195,000 pages
  • F1 completed over 195,000 pages
  • F2 completed over 184,000 pages

Great work, people!!!


Proofing & Formatting Stats

ALL rounds have met and exceeded their June page targets; several by over 50%! Way to go, people!!! You can be proud of your efforts. Now can we keep it up for the summer....

I'm not even going to guess for July, after all, it's only the first day....

Round P1 P2 P3 F1 F2
June target3,6003,6003,6003,6003,600
June final6,3375,1785,9585,9274,548
June final %176.03%143.43%165.50%164.64%126.33%
July target3,7203,7203,7203,7203,720
*July to date22885436
July to date %0.05%0.75%2.28%0.11%0.97%

*Numbers accurate to "press" time.

For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central.


Books In Process And/or Posted To PG Canada or PG-International

At press time, we had 602 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int. Fantastic work, everyone!!

There are currently 167 Bronze Star projects which are undergoing proofreading or formatting with another 30 waiting in the queue (not including the BEGIN projects). There are 495 Silver Star projects in the various post processing stages with 222 being post-processed and 99 waiting for PPers; the balance consists of those that have completed post processing and are awaiting posting at PG or are parts of projects that have been or will be merged which is why the Silver Star numbers are extremely variable. For more details about the posted and/or active projects, please see the listings on the DPC Welcome page.


User Team Talk

Have you checked out our user teams? To check out the teams or to join one go to: User Teams. The Team threads are located under Proofing Team Talk. Is there a team that you'd like to see? You can create a team from the link on the User Teams page--you might be surprised by who shows up to join you.

We have 29 teams; more are always welcome.


Possible Future Articles

This is YOUR newsletter: yes, there are forum posts and user team posts, but is there something that you want to tell the whole DPC community? You are allowed to brag here. You can also be anonymous if you choose ... we won't tell.

  • Tips or Hints: for those people who do/did a lot of proofing and/or formatting on DP-Int/US &/or DP-Eur, do you have any tips or "rules" that you follow to help yourself while you proof or format? Even a re-wording of a guideline that helps you remember how to do something specific.
  • Tell us why you joined DPC.
  • Quotable Quotes: have you seen a thought-provoking quote that is relevant to the DP Community while you were doing your proofing that you just had to pass on?...
  • The most interesting, outrageous, or strangest line you proofed: before it was proofed (if that was the outrageous or strange part) and what it was after proofing (please do not submit obscene language, it will not be published).
  • New projects: PMs is there a series of books or books by a very prolific author that you'd like to do?--let us know so that we can help pass the word to the proofers so they'll be there to jump in and work on them.
  • Kudos, Bouquets & Compliments: are there any DPers that you would like to give special thanks and/or recognition to: a mentor who gave you lots of guidance, a PPer that made your project into a very wonderful looking book for posting to PG, a CPer or image/text preparer who went the extra little bit to provide you with clean scans, well OCR'd text, or good illustrations for your project, another DPer who made you feel really welcome or provided you with some good advice or....
  • "Guest articles" by anyone and everyone who wishes to....
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